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1 hour ago - ... "The Apprentice," the phrase "You're fired" became synonymous with Donald Trump, who cast himself ... How Trump gets rid of people ..... "I would fire somebody that I did not believe could serve me well rather than trying to ...
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May 8, 2017 - He included the state in a post-election “thank-you tour. ... Trump's critics are actively exploring the path to impeachment or the invocation of the Twenty-fifth ... It is not a good sign for a beleaguered President when his party gets dragged down, too. ..... “They could have cleaned house and fired people.
Updated 4:54 PM ET, Wed July 26, 2017
You're fired! Or not? How Trump gets rid of people
Story highlights
- On NBC's "The Apprentice," Trump's catchphrase was, "You're fired"
- But deep down, Trump is a people-pleaser
Washington (CNN)During
his 14 seasons as the force behind NBC's "The Apprentice," the phrase
"You're fired" became synonymous with Donald Trump, who cast himself as
direct and combative in the make-believe board room.
The
New York businessman fully embraced the persona: His eponymous building
in Midtown Manhattan even strung up a large banner with the phrase as
the show was just getting off the ground in 2004.
But
deep down, Trump is a people-pleaser, his former employees and friends
say, someone who abhors direct confrontation and would rather be
well-liked by all, even if that means giving his aides power to ax
people.
"I
think Donald Trump doesn't like to fire people, period," the former
House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a Trump adviser and friend, said Tuesday on
Fox News.
During his presidential
campaign and into his presidency, Trump has kept dismissals at arm's
length, fuming in public at the state of his affairs, but rarely acting
as the person who brings the hammer down on the person behind his ire.
Sessions
Jeff
Sessions, Trump's Attorney General and one of his earliest top
supporters, is now feeling the impacts of Trump's distaste for firing
people. Sessions is effectively an attorney general without the backing
of his president, as Trump has tweeted in the last 48 hours that the
former Alabama senator is "beleaguered" and "weak."
These
traits have been on full display Wednesday as Trump tweeted criticism
of Sessions as the Attorney General was inside the White House for what a
source at the Department of Justice called a "routine meeting."
"Why
didn't A.G. Sessions replace acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, a Comey
friend who was in charge of Clinton investigation but got big dollars
($700,000) for his wife's political run from Hillary Clinton and her
representatives," Trump tweeted.
Another recent example of
Trump avoiding a dismissal was when the President decided to fire FBI
Director James Comey. Trump fumed about Comey behind closed doors,
according to White House officials, but it was Trump's longtime body
guard-turned-White House aide, Keith Schiller, who took a car to the FBI
headquarters to deliver the news to Comey.
Trump's
distaste for conflict also kept him away from some of his campaign's
most public firings. When Corey Lewandowski was dismissed in June 2016,
it was Trump's son -- Donald Trump Jr. -- who broke the news to the
fired campaign manager. And when New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was
canned from the Trump transition shortly after Trump's win on Election
Day, it was his top strategist -- Steve Bannon -- who told the governor.
The
President's handling of Sessions has begun to draw the ire of his
Republican colleagues, who have longstanding relationships with the
former senator.
"I would fire
somebody that I did not believe could serve me well rather than trying
to humiliate him in public, which is a sign of weakness," Sen. Lindsey
Graham, a South Carolina Republican, told CNN's Manu Raju on Wednesday.
"I would just go ahead and say, 'I appreciate your service, you need to
be fired.' "
Businessman bravado
Trump,
according to longtime friends and White House officials, likes to act
like he is a heavy when it comes to running his businesses. The
President, in conversations between his staffers and people outside the
White House, regularly asks how his staff is performing, joking that he
will fire them if the answer is negative.
Trump
did this publicly earlier this week when he joked in front of thousands
of people at the Boy Scouts of America's National Jamboree in West
Virginia that he would fire Health and Human Services Secretary Tom
Price if he can't pass health care reform.
"He better get (the votes)," Trump said of Price, who was standing behind him. "Otherwise, I'll say, 'Tom, you're fired.'"
Price and Energy Secretary Rick Perry are seen laughing behind the President.
But that truly isn't Trump, and the businessman-turned-politician has admitted as much.
In
an interview during his run with "The Apprentice" in Life Beyond Sport,
a men's lifestyle magazine, Trump cast the perception that he likes to
fire people as wrong.
"You
mentioned how much you respect you have for the contestants in your
show," the questioner asked. "It must be really hard to fire them. Do
you ever have regrets about doing it?"
Trump said: "I have regrets. Sometimes I do. People think I enjoy firing people. I don't."
That view is backed up by his former employees.
Barbara
Res, Trump's former head of construction, told CNN on Wednesday that
she never saw Trump fired someone in 18 years of working with him.
"He
didn't like to fire people but he didn't mind firing companies, like an
architect or an engineering firm," she said. "But when it came to
people who worked directly under him... just to fire you because you are
no good was very hard for him."
Res recalled a story during the building of Trump Tower in New York, a project she oversaw for the businessman.
Trump,
she recalled, hired a building manager that didn't mesh well with the
other staff, so Res and her assistant told Trump that the guy needed to
be fired. Trump agreed, but asked them to do it.
"We
told him, 'That is it. We are going to let you go,' " Res said.
"Anyway, the guy goes to Donald's office, goes across the street, and
Donald says, 'OK fine, we will keep you.' "
Res
said she was then "stuck" with him until, again, she got Trump's
approval to fire him. After doing so, the building manager went back to
Trump and got him to reverse the decision. The construction manager was
eventually fired on attempt No. 3 -- by Res, not Trump.
"He
loves to say everyone loves him, which is not the case. He likes to be
buddies with people," Res said when asked about the lessons she learned
about Trump during that back-and-forth. "I think that is part of it."
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